Year: 2015

Hughes lauds Guyanese Diaspora in NY for maintaining cultural heritage

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Tourism Minister Catherine Hughes, led a Guyanese contingent of travel professionals, hospitality and other service providers and representatives of the Guyana Marketing Corporation to the 14th Annual Guyana Folk Festival and Brooklyn Labour Day festivities last weekend. Minister Hughes and party arrived in New York on Friday September 4, 2015 and went directly to the traditional “Kwe Kwe” (Queh Queh) event at the St Stephen’s Lutheran Church Hall.   She lauded the Guyana Cultural Association (GCA) for the effort they expend every year to maintain their cultural heritage and ensure that…

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23-year-old driver dies following horrific accident

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Twenty- three-year old Mahindra Sugrim died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) on Wednesday evening (September 16) after a speeding Toyota Tacoma truck slammed into his car on the West Bank of Demerara. Several persons were also injured in the accident. It is suspected that the driver of the Tacoma was allegedly racing with another truck when he crashed into a white car, before colliding head on with Sugrim, who was driving the Blue Toyota Avensis. Sugrim’s car ended up in a nearby trench, where he remained pinned inside…

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Giftland Mall unveils Next Generation Boxing

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By Avenash Ramzan The usual daily buzz at the freshly minted Giftland Mall will reach fever pitch on September 26 when the management of the sprawling department store in partnership with the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stages the first-ever Next Generation Boxing- Giftland Showcase ProAm boxing card. An evening of fistic fury is set to transform the Liliendaal facility into a virtual battle ground, as 16 of the country’s emerging boxing talents will compete in four professional and a similar number of amateur fights. The format of this…

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Drayton wins Burnham memorial chess tourney

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The Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham memorial chess tournament concluded last weekend with Guyana’s FIDE Candidate Master, Anthony Drayton, emerging as champion at the National Resource Centre on Woolford Avenue. On the final day of the competition, Drayton, who was in third position coming into the final two rounds, defeated Davion Mars and Alexander Duncan to increase his tally by two points to finish with a grand total of 5.5 points. Former national junior and senior champion, Taffin Khan, also scored 5.5 points, after earning a bye from Frankie Farley and…

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GFF meets UDFA on constitutional reform

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By Avenash Ramzan Officials of the Normalisation Committee of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Wednesday evening travelled to the Mining Town of Linden to meet with members of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) on the issue of constitutional reform. The meeting was held at the Linden Enterprise Network building on Republic Avenue, and was attended by Chairman of the Normalisation Committee Clinton Urling, GFF’s General Secretary Richard Groden and Assistant General Secretary Diedre Davis, and GFF’s Director of Marketing and Communications Rawle Toney. According to Toney, the meeting…

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WICB clears the air over decision to sack Ramdin as captain

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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is seeking to clear the air over the circumstances surrounding the decision to remove Denesh Ramdin as captain of the regional side. A WICB statement issued on Wednesday was released in response to media reports suggesting sinister motives may be behind the decision to sack the Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper batsman. The decision has drawn fire in some quarters including from the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president, Azim Bassarath and former West Indies manager Omar Khan. Bassarath says he…

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Experience the airy heights of the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway

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Suspended some 33 metres above the rainforest floor on the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway is a breathtakingly incredible experience that you can never forget. A series of suspension bridges and four spacious platforms provide views of birds and other wildlife you simply won’t get from the ground. Those who have experienced the walkway speak of being “eye to eye” with the birds and other wildlife. Constructed of aluminium and suspended by steel cables, the canopy, built to Canadian outdoor construction standards, is the only tourist canopy walkway in the Guiana Shield.…

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Revisiting the art of Donald Locke

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Donald Cuthbert Locke was born in the West Coast Demerara village of Stewartville, and began painting in 1947 under ER Burrowes, MBE. Locke was awarded a British Council Scholarship in 1954, and studied at Bath Academy of Art in Wiltshire, England. In 1959 he was awarded a Guyana Government Award to Edinburgh University, Scotland. He returned home to become involved in the Independence artists of the era before migrating from Guyana in 1970. It is said that he became disillusioned with the British art scene and arrived in the United…

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A bridge too far…

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…in Berbice? Seems that this Berbice Bridge issue just won’t go away. So your loyal Eyewitness thought he’d have a stab at understanding what the heck’s going on. As CN Sharma used to say, there always three sides to any story: your side, their side and the truth. First off the bat, there’s the government side. Without taking “lee from license” they announced to their Berbice supporters that they were going to reduce the tolls from the Bridge “significantly”. Why?? Duh!! Why do politicians make promises? To get votes, silly!!…

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